Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Guest post by Betsy Beaumon, President, Benetech We are seeking visionary leaders to join Benetech in applying technology to advance the rights of disadvantaged people around the world. We operate at the intersection of technology and social impact, and therefore our ideal candidates will demonstrate these dual interests and experiences.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 3, 2021

You know it’s time for new association management software (AMS). It’s time for new association management software for your organization. But before you can move ahead in your search, evaluation, purchase, and implementation of new technology, you still need one thing: board approval. . You know it.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 20, 2018

Associations are making a move from old school, legacy association management software (AMS) systems to modern enterprise platform-based AMS systems on the Salesforce App Cloud. From email marketing to volunteer management, the Salesforce AppExchange offers more than 3,500 applications for associations to advance their mission.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

There is no better place to engage with colleagues about new technologies, changing business models, fresh ideas, and shared standards. Next month, I will be heading to TOC a couple of days early in order to participate in a W3C Workshop on eBooks and the Open Web Platform, where I will be talking about Social DRM (Digital Rights Management).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

It became a burden to his family and caregivers to constantly drop what they were doing to turn a page, so he began seeking out ebooks. It also demonstrates how each ebook that is added to the Bookshare collection is a brick in our members’ foundation of independence and inclusion. Eventually he had to ask others to turn pages for him.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

At Benetech, we always ask ourselves how our existing successful programs can reach more people who need our services and how we can apply technology in new ways to enrich and improve more lives. a11y accessibility Bookshare Braille DAISY ebooks Global Literacy print disabilities Reading' The majority of our members are U.S.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

We all live in a world filled with technology, which can prove to be a help and hinderance to our work and personal lives. Furthermore, for those of us in the nonprofit world who rely on technology every day to do our jobs, the efficiencies gained by this technology can make a significant impact in the funds we deliver to improve social good.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Transforming the Future Through Technology. Future goals include looking at how technology can help improve its CRM capabilities and build stronger relationships with both supporters and customers on the enterprise side of the organisation. Senior Product Marketing Manager at Salesforce.org. Susan Mahon.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The world has finally moved beyond just electronically creating books that are then distributed as ordinary print books to actually delivering digital ebooks. In technical terms, this means that the next version of the DAISY format, version 4, will be the same as EPUB3, the main format used by commercial publishers of ebooks.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As technology evolves, there are new ways nonprofits like yours can take advantage of advancements to save time and raise more money. At the forefront of these new technologies is artificial intelligence (AI). Volunteer management AI tools for nonprofits can help you optimize your volunteer management processes.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

They’ve also told us about some great, but little-known online resources that explore faith-based IT like the pros and cons of the different church member management software packages and website content management systems for congregation websites. Church Technology Listservs. We thought we’d share that with you.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone. Free Microsoft Technical eBooks. nonprofit technology news nptech NPTech news cloud computing' It then sends its findings to your smartphone of tablet.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. We are confident that technology can continue to improve the quality of electronic braille such that a blind consumer can expect both immediate AND high quality braille on demand.

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Bloomerang

JULY 9, 2021

Can everyone in management engage with them and understand key information? Today’s technology makes it fairly easy to build a good financial dashboard. So while many nonprofits would have seen it as a luxury 20 years ago, more and more now see it as a “must have” to engage their board and management.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 10, 2020

Here’s how modern association management software can help. This required adapting their technology and related processes for remote access, collaboration , and security. We’ve been able to automate hundreds of processes, which saves our staff countless hours each day.” – Jake Adler, Chief Technology Officer, ASSH. Download now.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

Poet supports image descriptions for electronic books created in the international DAISY standard for digital talking books and will be compatible with descriptions for ebooks in the EPUB3 format. The Center is managed by Benetech in partnership with the WGBH National Center for Accessible Medi a (NCAM) and US Fund for DAISY (USFDAISY).

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network – "That's right, I said it. What Matters Now eBook – Get the ebook now for free! "We More than seventy extraordinary authors and thinkers contributed to this ebook. Managers find social media important and organizations are generally enthusiastic.

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 10, 2021

When you’re in the market for a new association management software (AMS) system, you need all of the information you can get. This approach ensures your organization is keeping up with the latest technological advances without budget-busting fees and broken customizations. What’s the answer for Nimble AMS? Email me the guide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2019

When it comes to technology, you get what you pay for. You’ll get faster speeds, stronger security, and extra managed services that are built-in to save you time. If needed, backups are easy to manage and restore from the dashboard. Nicely designed Flywheel dashboard with backup management. The benefits outweigh the cost.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Benetech was a proud endorser of these objections (under our legal organizational name of Beneficent Technology, Inc.). We all want the same ebook that people without disabilities buy (sorry, I mean license) to work perfectly well for people who are blind, physically disabled or dyslexic.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! If you’re a nonprofit news junkie, have a look at all our Nonprofit Technology News pieces from this past year. TechSoup Technologies for Good. Hacker Helper is all about not reinventing the technology wheel.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 16, 2021

It is nonprofit technology for use cases like constituent management, fundraising, marketing and communications, and program management. Additionally, NPSP comes with its own set of configuration options that can be used to manage things like naming conventions for donors. You know your data and your donors best.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

David Grossman , president and founder of The Grossman Group , published in 2010 a helpful, free eBook titled: Mastering The Art of Messaging. Using the 18-page ebook , you''ll learn : what a strategic messaging plan should encompass (and what it shouldn’t). Thanks, as always, David, for another useful ebook!

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NTEN

JULY 12, 2012

Manager of Information Technology. We suddenly need to reshape, rethink, and redesign our content to work on smartphones, tablets, apps, social channels, eBooks, and more including what's yet to come. Jason Samuels. National Council on Family Relations. Anyone who knows me knows I’m a data nerd.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 24, 2020

With that in mind, Blackbaud has published an eBook entitled “Becoming a Resilient Nonprofit” that includes a round-up of sector resources and critical thinking on key strategies to ensure sustainability. Nonprofit missions grind to a halt without the automation and digital tools that technology brings to the table.

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NetWits

APRIL 13, 2013

If you’re at The 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference we’d love for you to join us > [link]. The most engaging person on twitter will win a bound copy of our new npEXPERTS fundraising and marketing eBook. Based on the research we’ve done roughly 73% allocate 1/2 FTE to managing social networking activities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

But, it's a dream that the commercial ebook vendors keep dashing. We have an action by Amazon that sets back years of work to make ebooks accessible. If Kindle ebooks were available on the Web, other developers could fix many of its limitations such as lousy support for images, problems with complex layouts, inaccessibility.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Download the Trailblazer Celebration eBook to learn more about how Oranje Fonds is using Salesforce to engage their community and drive action. Senior Product Marketing Manager at Salesforce.org. Susan Mahon is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Salesforce.org, a social impact centre at Salesforce. About the Author.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2012

Instead, you spend so much time every day managing your inbox that everything else in your life--real work, family, play--is practically an afterthought." Finally, in the ebook, Grossman talks about the CEO of French technology giant Atos, who plans to phase out internal emails by 2014.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Choosing the right member-management software is a big decision, and the selection process can be both tedious and time-consuming. The free downloadable ebook lays out a series of seven easy-to-follow steps for a smooth software review process. It suggests the most common pitfalls.( read more ).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Betsy Beaumon, Benetech VP and General Manager of Bookshare During the event, our Bookshare staff offered demos of our Bookshare library and our Go Read accessible ebook reader for Android. Bookshare was one of the early recipients of a Google Grant of online advertising, which continues to this day.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. Thanks again!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

We think that all publishers should sell accessible ebooks when they sell their books through mainstream channels, but the copyright exception leaves that decision to the publishers except for this narrow community of people who are significantly disabled when it comes to print. Employ "Social Digital Rights Management" technology.

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2015

Sixteen nonprofit tech experts (including NTEN Members: Jeff Shuck , David Neff , Donna Wilkins , Frank Barry , and NTEN''s Amy Sample Ward ) share their ideas and fundraising best practices in Blackbaud ''s new free ebook, The Future of Fundraising. Direct service can teach you a lot about digital strategy. 28-30, in Chicago, IL.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

However, the time has come when we need a really smart attorney to join Benetech and help us navigate the intersection of technology and social good. We are now looking for a half-time general counsel to join our team and manage the host of legal issues we are always investigating.

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